Film Analysis: Bridget Jones
Bridget Jones's Diary is a romantic comedy based on a novel by Helen Fielding. This movie follows Bridget (Renee Zellweger), a thirty-two year old British woman who has a fondness for alcoholic binges, smoking, and an inability to control her weight. After a drinking binge alone in her apartment during the holidays Bridget decides it's time to take control of her life, and start keeping a diary. The diary she thought would help her take control of her thoughts and life becomes a hilarious chronicle of her adventures.In the first act of Bridget Jones's Diary we are introduced to Bridget and her old fashioned parents, Pam and Colin. Bridget is attending their annual New Years dinner. Like always, Pam tries to set Bridget up with some dull middle-aged man. This time however, she is introduced to a handsome human-rights lawyer named Mark Darcy. At first she is interested but she takes against him later when she overhears him belittle her. After this we see Bridget alone in her apartment and very drunk. During this time she decides that she will not allow herself to be alone next New Years Eve. To help her achieve this goal she makes resolutions to reduce her intake of alcohol and cigarettes, and loose twenty pounds. She also vows to
Act three starts around Christmas time. Pam leaves the shopping-channel presenter and is reconciled with Colin. Then Bridget discovers that it was actually Daniel who stole Mark's wife years before. Now, Bridget is on the verge of revealing her feelings for Mark when it is announced he is getting engaged and moving to New York. Just before Bridget is about to embark on a mini-break to Paris with her friends, Mark shows up to confess his love to her, but leaves when he accidentally reads the negative diary entries about him. Bridget desperately runs after him in her skimpy underwear. In the end it turns out that he only left to go buy here a new diary to start a new life with him. They kiss in the snow, and are a couple at last. In the middle of the movie Bridget's life takes a down turn. She discovers a naked woman in Daniel's apartment and breaks up with him. On top of that her mother leaves her father for a shopping-channel presenter. Now Bridget is not only single and overweight again but she also comes from a broken home. After another depressive drinking binge, Bridget, for a second time, tries to turn her life around. She gets a new job reporting for a current-affairs show called Sit Up Britain. Things ligh
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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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